köken: Etymology tree Latin gradātus Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin gradātiō From gradātus (“stepped”) + -tiō.
verbal noun of степену́вам (stepenúvam): gradation (the act of gradating or arranging in grades) · comparison (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
köken: By surface analysis, степену́вам (stepenúvam) + -не (-ne).